A company that bakes chocolate chip cookies averages 5.2 chocolate chips per cookie. Assume that the number of chocolate chips per cookie follows the Poisson distribution. What is the probability that a randomly selected cookie will contain exactly four chocolate chips? Round to four decimal places as needed. A. 0.2960 B. 0.1681 C. 0.2254 D. 0.3325
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